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The fact that Mono is an implementation of Microsoft's .Net platform means that Mono is a product of Microsoft?

Technology A, developed by Organisation B, is an implementation of Model C which is a product of Organisation D. Therefore, Technology A is a product of Organisation D. Are you seriously proposing this logic to me? This is faulty logic, the fallacy being non-sequitur logic.

Following this logic, is GNU dotNet a Microsoft product? Is GNU Classpath a product of Sun Microsystems? Is Mozilla's Firefox web browser mean that it is a product of Tim Berners-Lee? Are AMD's CPUs the product of the Intel corporation?

As for remaking the desktop using Mono whether you like what they've done or not KDE has made the point moot by doing it all in C++ and a few scripting languages with a desktop that's both rethought and fast.

MONO and .NET can make many claims by speed isn't the first one that comes to mind. In fact it's almost the last.